We cannot experience climate because it is not real; it's a heuristic construct.
When people act as if an intellectual construct is real they are committing what Alfred North Whitehead called "the fallacy of the misplaced concreteness. This is also known as REIFICATION.
(Ditto "race"; this is why racism is stupid and why we must treat all humans as individuals - because that is what they are!)!
There are weather patterns - and some last days, or weeks, or months, or years, or decades, or centuries - but they are just malleable patterns, very complex and sublet to change.
The geological record is replete with huge shift in these patterns, and NOTHING we are experiencing now is outside of these known historic shifts.
A given "weather era" or climatological pattern in a past period of geological history is a CONSTRUCT, a genre, a set, AN ARBITRARILY ISOLATED COLLECTION OF DAYS?YEARS/DECADES/CENTURIES CONSTRUCTED BY OBSERVATION OF CERTAIN SPECIFIC CHOSEN ATTRIBUTES.
The weather within the confines of those arbitrary dates was real; the climate is a construct - and a construct which ignores many possible factors - like cloud cover, volcanoes, and gamma rays. Most of these climate eras do not ignore sunspot activity, and this almost always correlates to changes in weather patterns over time.
The sun has ALWAYS had variations in its output. Climates - local and other wise - have always changed.
Man-made CO2 and other man-made "greenhouse gases" have not made our "climate era" deviate from previous "climate eras" in any remarkable way.
IOW: climate change is NATURAL. And the AGW alarmists should STFU.
UPDATE; TODAY'S WEATHER NEWS - (NOT CLIMATE NEWS!) - VIA DRUDGE:
ICE AGE: Columbia, SC has first Christmas snow since records kept in 1887...COLDEST WEATHER FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS.
Atlanta's First Since 1882...
Cold weather endangers sea creatures...
Record lows set for Miami, Key West...
THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING.
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Heinlein said it pretty well:
"Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get."
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